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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
64% - Immigrants Work Harder than Whites for Low-Pay
Public opinion is highly lopsided when it comes to weighing the work effort of immigrants versus whites -- some 64% of adults in this country agree that immigrants work harder than whites at low-paying jobs, compared with just 26% who disagree. However, an even higher percentage of blacks -- 75% -- say that whites are out-worked by immigrants at low-wage jobs; just 61% of whites say the same thing. One pattern is consistent regardless of race: both whites and blacks are more likely to say that whites are outworked at low-wage jobs by immigrants than to say that blacks are out-worked at such jobs by immigrants. Public opinion on these questions hasn't changed much since 1986, despite the fact that this country has experienced a heavy influx of immigrants, many of whom have come to work at low-wage jobs, in the past two decades. Read more
